[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> I agree that TUPLE! is mis-documented as a series datatype. It also
> fails on INDEX? It's a scalar datatype like DATE! Might be worth
> reporting to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
I copied them on the message.
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> You're also right that
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> <http://www.rebol.com/manual/valabout.html>
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> is just plain poor.
>
Well, being diplomatic (every now and then... ;-) I've simply said
that it is a draft which could still use some editing.
>
> The old manual was more definate:
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> "The two types of values are scalar (single number) and series
> datatypes."
>
...but equally confusing; money! is clearly NOT a "single
number", and tuple! (which we agree isn't a scalar, whatever
else one may say about it) can have more bits than one would
expect of a "single number"
>> bigblob: make tuple! [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9]
== 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9
-jn-
